Please pardon the cross list post. For a while now I have been attempting to drum up a small team to create a functional demo of the Kablink (OSS Novell Vibe) collaboration technology. I was reluctant to attempt drumming up any support or publicity until I could clearly show how it could be done to benefit our community. However, attempting this in relative secrecy hasn't worked. Also, it has been brought to my attention that open/SuSE has become a largely ruby house. Thus the Java its mostly written in may not be compatible. Also a known issue with Kablink is its complexity, and ugly interface. I had a meeting with a manager from Novell to see about getting assistance in implementing Kablink for us, and he agreed to assist us with the project. However, I am not saavy enough to do much with it. I have also been evaluating another similar technology called Cyn.in from Cynapse, which is written largely in Python and has an excellent interface. This is perhaps a more viable technology as I believe we have more Python devs than Java ones. So now I am approaching you to discuss if you feel as I do that we could benefit from a solution like this. Also, I feel that we need to make sure that the technologies our project uses must be OSS seeing as I know we have been using some collaboration platform that is not Free. I ask that you take a look at the Kablink and Cyn.in and imagine the possibilities. I think that many of the issues facing our project could be relieved with a unified collaboration platform. This platform could supplant some of our current technologies, while integrating with others. Thank you for your time and consideration. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org